Cultural Policy Beyond Aesthetics
We need ways of measuring cultural tastes and values that will assist the development of cultural policies that will be ‘beyond aesthetics’ in the sense of recognising that, in complex, culturally diverse societies, there is no single hierarchy of cultural values in play of the kind that was supposed in the earlier development of western cultural policies.
Refracting Rights through Material Culture: Implementing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act
Since the passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) by the United States Congress in 1990, Native Americanists and legal scholars have claimed that the Act exemplifies progressive human rights legislation.
Purges, Exclusions, and Limits: Art Policies in Germany 1933-1949
In this paper I will discuss OMGUS art policies in the post WWII period (1945-1949).
Sovereignty and Cultural Property Policy in Museums
This paper asks how museums can develop cultural property policies in museums that are based on concepts of tribal sovereignty.